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No One Could Have Guessed the Weather
Sometimes what you want in your twenties isn't what you want or need in your forties….
When Lucy's husband loses his job, she is forced to give up her posh life and move their family to a tiny apartment in Manhattan, where he has managed to secure a lowly position. Lucy soon finds herself living in the epicenter of cool and hip. Across from their apartment is a bar called PDT—when Lucy passes by she thinks, "Please Don't Tell anyone I'm a middle-aged woman."
Homesick and resentful at first, Lucy soon embarks on the love affair of her life—no, not with her husband (though they're both immensely relieved to discover they do love each other for richer or poorer), but with New York City and the three women she befriends.
There's Julia, who is basically branded with a Scarlett A when she leaves her husband and kids for a mini nervous breakdown and a room of her own; Christy, the trophy wife of a much older successful man, who is a bit adrift as only those who live high up in penthouses can be; and disheveled and harried Robyn, who is constantly compensating for her husband who can't seem to make the transition from wunderkind to adult.
Spot-on observant, laugh-out-loud funny, yet laced with kindness through and through, No One Could Have Guessed the Weather is what happens when you grow up and realize the middle part of your story might just be your beginning.
They arrived in early September. No one could have guessed the weather. It was, as the forecast told them one day, as if a blowtorch had gone through the city. "This is meant to be autumn," she cried, "or, rather, fall, as the Americans call it." "Because the leaves are falling," laughed little Max. She looked at him and thought, No, because of our fall from grace.
The apartment had no air-conditioning. She sweated and was not happy.
They had visited at Christmas and the streets were quiet. She learned quickly this had been an illusion. He had brought his family to the very epicenter of cool, single, young New York. Apart from everything else, this made her look uncool, married, and old. Opposite them was a bar so trendy the waifish clientele entered through a telephone box next to a hot-dog stand. It was called PDT. Walking down the street she would think, PDT—Please Don't Tell anyone I am a middle-aged woman.
When he told her what had happened, she thought he was joking. Sometimes he had a cruel sense of humor, and had once played a practical joke with a talking mirror in the guest bathroom that made his parents refuse to visit them for a year. It took two weeks of conversation and two cases of red wine for her to accept that this was not his biggest-ever whoopee cushion; they had lost everything—well, nearly everything. And he kept saying there was no point in shouting at him, for it wasn't his fault, it was the economy, stupid. In fact, they were lucky. He had one chance at a low-level management job in the New York office. No bonuses, but a salary, and they could live in the eight-hundred-square-foot East Village apartment he had bought as a hotel room years ago.
"You'll love it," he assured her.
"Really?" she replied, rolling her eyes, imagining what she would do if he uttered the words "new" and "start."
She told him he would have to commute from their white stucco four-bedroom in Ladbroke Grove. That's when he told her they had defaulted on the mortgage six months ago and the house was already on the market. It was beyond infuriating.
The Mothers at the School shrieked divorce. She listened in desperate hope. She knew that the divorcées among their number had ended up with white stucco four-bedrooms, child support, and in one case a lump-sum payment for loss of earnings. She figured this could assuage a lot of emotional pain. But when she looked at the business sections of the newspapers it appeared there had indeed been some kind of global collapse in the financial markets and, although she had indeed abandoned a dreary, ill-paid job that bored her to spend the past nine years supervising the Nanny and the Housekeeper and the Children, she had enough brain cells left to know this might not entitle her to much of what remained when nearly everything had gone.
So she cried and cried. Read articles in glossy magazines about the downturn being an opportunity to stop shopping and rediscover the Real Meaning of Life. They did not help at all. Surely they had spent twenty years being told that greed is good? Consumerism helps society. No more boom and bust. And then she cried some more.
Her aunt Eva arrived at ten one morning and found her sobbing over the boys' crested school uniforms. She couldn't bear to remember the scene that ensued; suffice to say that she did not consider it to have been appropriately sympathetic. She had brandished a file of yellowing articles from said glossy magazines saying how it was her right to stay at home when her children were small. And a piece from the Saturday Guardian about how children who go to day care from an early age are more likely to turn into delinquents and drug addicts, setting fire to wheelie bins and inhaling the fumes.
Then she was angry. The anger fueled a burst of activity that got them to New York in the fall.
Every day she dragged the two boys aimlessly around the neighborhood, always ending up in the new playground in Tompkins Square Park, ignoring the rats frolicking like rabbits and the homeless alcoholics vomiting into black plastic rubbish sacks. One morning, as they crossed a flower bed to avoid two ambulance men removing another ragged, comatose body from a bench, music erupted from a tiny storefront on Avenue A. An elderly Mexican laborer, one of a group she saw most mornings on the pavement waiting for work, simply stood up and danced. He held his body quite upright, moving to the rhythm with absolute control, and then, to her amazement, he held out an imperious hand to a beautiful young girl, from her storklike proportions and huge eyes obviously one of the models who descended on the area like designer locusts. The girl gave a slight coy bow of her head and then put her perfect hand in his, just like Beauty when she saw the true nature of the Beast for the first time at the foot of his grand staircase. They waltzed.
Passersby stopped; touched by joy, they laughed and clapped in time. Max and Robbie giggled and bounced up and down, but she froze, her throat constricted, the sudden emotion so shocking she was able to observe it, exactly as if she had cut herself with a piece of broken glass and there were a few milliseconds before blood spurted out. Tears spurting out of her eyes, she had to hurry away round a corner, where they almost collided with a woman with a live snake around her neck, and the boys giggled and bounced up and down again. Really, sometimes she thought it was impossible to walk down a street without seeing something that aroused such a primal response in her, although, even as she blamed the city, she feared that this sort of overemotionalism might be the start of menopause, a horrific condition, according to Aunt Eva, involving sagging and shriveling and, believe it or not, "crispiness," though that word had not been said, merely mouthed.
That night she couldn't sleep. It was then she realized she had swallowed her last Ambien on the flight over.
She told the story of the dancing, without the tears or the crispiness fears, at Sunday lunch in a three-bedroom duplex in a doorman building opposite the park, after which his new boss, Jerry, and Jerry's Current Wife told them how much they missed living downtown. With a meaningful glance between them, they agreed on the deficiencies of the Upper East Side; it's so "sanitized," they moaned. Jerry and Jerry's Current Wife remembered a time when poets lived on Saint Marks Place and Jeff Buckley sang "Hallelujah" in Sin-é. She nodded in sympathy, but she had realized on previous trips to the city that the epithet "sanitized" used in conjunction with the location of real estate was code among a certain (invariably wealthy) type of New Yorker to indicate their mixed feelings about "selling out." For her it was simply the effects of regular garbage collection.
Later that day, on the 6 train heading home she looked at him and remarked on this. He burst out laughing. She laughed, too. The boys looked at them strangely. Their parents laughing together was a disconcerting sight. Fortunately, things quickly reverted to normal.
Their American health insurance plan had a more stringent policy toward therapy, the taking of antidepressant medication, or even acupuncture. (It appeared you actually had to have tried to throw yourself out of a window, or chased after your children with a mezzaluna before you could be referred.) Thus, with three of her preferred daytime activities removed at a stroke, she was left to self-diagnose her symptoms on the Internet. Unfortunately, hysterical outbursts, headaches, and lethargy were not just symptoms of the perimenopause, but everything from diabetes to advanced brain tumors as well. She began to wonder if it was all the fault of the noise, the cacophony of noise that followed her wherever she went.
Back home, as she still referred to it, she had banished most real sound, except for chatting, of course, from her daytime life. She prided herself on her meditative color scheme, her candles and small piles of perfectly shaped stones, her panpipe ambient background music ordered from Santa Fe. She had even bought the Housekeeper a special vacuum with a "silent" option on the controls. Now, as she spent hours lying on the bed, mourning the curtains she had left behind, her ears were assaulted by the three couples sharing upstairs stomping around, running their showers, and nursing their lame greyhound. Below there was the neurotic poodle and the teenager's violin practice. It took about a month for it to occur to her that, in turn, the neighbors were treated to the growls of the boys playing something like Transformers tigers and the ensuing shrieking from her about their homework or their dirty clothes or their general selfishness like a strange hybrid of fishwife and robot.
And all this before you considered what was going on outside. One evening, disco rabbis came down the street. This was not something she had ever seen or heard on Portland Road.
She held out a faint hope that she would find a kindred spirit at the school gates. So much of the texture of her "before" life had been provided by her relationships with the Mothers: the coffees, the exercise classes, the helpful tips ("I put Post-it notes on places I want Irela to clean"), the discussion of important educational developments, like the affair between Venetia's mother and the dirty (and dirty) young groundsman who was the son of the headmaster. But it was not to be. For a start, there were several men doing their paternal duty. Kidult men with short gray hair, wearing tight T-shirts and cargo pants with flip-flops. And she was intimidated by the most vocal group of women, who were always hugging one another before running off to their yoga or their fund-raising bake sales or their suitably part-time creative jobs with their not-in-the-least-gray hair, miniskirts, and Birkenstocks (their slim, tanned legs marred only by the occasional varicose vein or its less knobbly cousin the spiderweb thread vein).
Her concerns about the dramatic change in the boys' educational environment was not helped by the regular spelling and punctuation mistakes on the PTA board outside the school. Apparently the season for pumkin's was approaching. When she mentioned this to a more friendly-looking plump woman, the woman had seemed offended. Clearly, her views were going to be an obstacle to her smooth entry into the community. When she insisted Max and Robbie say "please" and "thank you" to the beleaguered teachers she caught a couple of other parents glancing at her judgmentally. She was "so English," she imagined them saying to one another; concerned about petty politeness and grammar at the expense of her children's self-esteem, creativity, and interest in saving the planet. Of course, there were a few actually poor children whose mothers were running off to cook and clean for her neighbors. They didn't look like they cared at all about recycling, but they wouldn't provide recreational activities for her. She gave up on the school at this point. (Later she would realize that she had projected such an air of unhappiness from behind her sunglasses that people had moved away from her in case it was contagious, like an emotional Ebola virus.) Anyway, it didn't matter, because these days he frequently volunteered to do the morning run.
He had made a Father Friend, in fact, a man called Kristian with a K, and sometimes, he told her, they grabbed a quick coffee and chatted. Kristian was separated from his wife, Julia, and their two children lived with him. Julia was a successful screenwriter, a "show runner" on a prime-time TV series (whatever that meant), but had the "chip of ice" all creative people need, a coldness in their nature that allows them to use anything and anyone as material. It's "splinter" of ice, she muttered. Graham Greene called it the "splinter," but he was on a roll.
"Have you ever seen her?" he asked. "Kristian says Julia's about six foot tall, always wears a hat, and talks to herself."
Before she could decide whether this was factual or disloyal, she remembered that last Friday she had seen such an apparition marching up and down a corridor, shouting, "How long is it since we butchered a pregnant woman with a meat cleaver?" into her phone, oblivious to a clustered group of mothers swapping vegetarian curry recipes as their children hit one another with macramé snakes.
"That must have been her," he said. "Did you speak?"
She had watched as the person she now knew was Julia switched the phone off but kept muttering, long, bony arms twitching, endless legs vibrating until inevitably the bulging bag on her shoulder seemed to spin off with a force of its own, spilling a red leather-bound notebook, glasses, pens, scraps of paper with one or two words scribbled on them, and a raggedy paperback onto the tiles at the feet of the women discussing broad beans and kimchi.
The book was called Why Mothers Kill.
"Workaholism has driven Julia crazy," he concluded.
"According to Kristian with a K," she pointed out, but he ignored her. He was trying to make some meaningful point about how relationships are destroyed, but she was distracted, intrigued by this Julia and her splinter of ice, which she knew was an inability to play nice like all the other girls.
This was a quality she recognized in herself.
He loved the school like he loved New York, immoderately, passionately. Not only was it free, it was great for what he kept calling his sons' "life education," and even she had to admit that while the prep school in Notting Hill did do an annual charity auction for different countries in the sub-Saharan continent, its idea of diversity among its pupils was white South Africans and the children of the Japanese ambassador. But she gathered herself with her usual rallying cry.
"How will they get into Cambridge University if they never do Latin?"
One night he retaliated. "What's the point of a degree from Cambridge University if you don't do anything with it?"
This was hurtful, it hit home, but she was glad. She prepared herself to sulk mightily and searched for the magazine articles about child development again, but he simply walked into the bathroom and locked the door. She stood outside.
"I'm like Bathsheba Everdene in Far from the Madding Crowd. 'The stuff of which great men's mothers are made.' "
There was a loud chortle from the toilet that could be interpreted only as a diminution of her maternal skills. Max and Robbie joined in. She was horrified. For if she was not a Good Mother, what on earth had she been doing all this time? She accused him of encouraging a male conspiracy against her. He told her to lighten up. No argument ensued. What was happening to him?
He was convinced that their new circumstances were good for them as a family. He expressed pleasure at the smallness of their living quarters, delighted at how she had cleaned the tiles round the shower with an old toothbrush and industrial bleach, and described her previous interior design style as "soulless." They were mucking in together, getting to know each other. When she had stopped trying to decide which of these things was the strangest to say, she wondered whether he was writing articles in glossy magazines about the "Gift of Time" under a pseudonym.
Certainly they were seeing more of him. He invented strange ball games and had learned that a washing machine does the clothes and is different from the one that does dishes. He made funny jokes that didn't upset anyone. And although the Mothers at the School in London had predicted he would miss the "buzz" of his brilliant career, he didn't seem to miss the eighteen-hour workdays at all. Sometimes she felt she was going to bed every night with an inspirational speaker of the kind found on DVDs in the lobbies of health spas. And as she had always found certainty enormously erotic (she had had a secret two-week crush on George W. Bush in his leather Air Force jacket), she had to admit that their sex life had been transformed. In a good way. She still hated him, of course, but couldn't wait for the weekends. What was happening to her?
Now that she had no help, she immediately jettisoned her previous sanctimonious rules about children, food, and television. She used to dread the hours between five and seven, but now she would pour herself a glass of wine, microwave a Whole Foods ready meal, and let the boys gobble it down in front of a PBS show set in California involving adaptations of classic novels narrated by and starring a dog. Struck by their rapt absorption one day, she came out of the bedroom, removed her earplugs, and sat between her sons, their warm heads leaning against her, and watched. The story was Pride and Prejudice, and once she got past the actress playing Elizabeth Bennet flirting with a terrier called Mr. Darcy and wondering what could be done with that in the adult section of the cable menu, she was hooked. The lessons of Miss Austen were learned during a beach-party social. She had no idea children's programming could be such fun.
In fact, she had entirely forgotten the pleasure of watching television, and now that she had no friends she could see loads of it: daytime drama, documentaries, dinosaur-versus-shark specials. And then she started reading newspapers, taking books out of the library, spotting posters of obscure bands and listening to their music on YouTube. In the evenings they talked to each other. Everything from U.S. economic policy to why Heart were fantastic and how difficult it is for women to rock.
He told her it was good to remember how much she used to love music. How glad he was that she had let it back into her life again, and before she could say anything, he reminded her of the first time they met, aged twenty-seven, at someone's party in a dark basement near Trafalgar Square, and how she had teased him about his record collection. He loved Queen. And Kool & the Gang. Had the twelve-inch disco version of "Rock the Boat" by Forrest (and had never heard of the Hues Corporation). When he finally admitted he couldn't see the point of The Smiths, she insisted he come back to her flat to listen to "Girlfriend in a Coma." He was excited. He had spotted her several years before, at university, where she wore homemade goth outfits with a Groucho Marx badge pinned to her academic gown, but he had never spoken to her, although he wanted to. It had something to do with the rowing team making fun of her, but they were estate agents now, and he could go out with the pale, clever girl who didn't fit in if he could persuade her to have him.
He laughed and laughed at the memory, started singing and waving two wilted roses from the five-dollar bunch on the table as if they were gladioli. Suddenly, she felt the constriction in her throat again, the tears spurting, and announced that she wanted a Snickers bar desperately and would have to get it. Immediately. Once outside, she fought her way through the throng of pierced young people, and by the Australian Tuck Shop she sat down and wept.
For it was as if she had seen them together that first time. Yes. Really. As if it were that very moment. The two of them on her awful futon in Earls Court, snogging, for that was the only word for it, with her black-and-white collage on the wall. (Actually, wasn't that in her room at college? Maybe it was the poster for the experimental multimedia play she had written?) They had even brought an obligatory traffic cone up with them—her idea, of course. The song had brought it all back to her, but there was more to it than that, it was more than a historical record of an event that a date could tell you, it was a sensation, a feeling that wanted to be felt.
It was love.
Love for him, for her children, for this wonderful/terrible/ boiling hot/freezing cold city that was going to save her. It had stalked her since her arrival, and now it had her, but she wasn't afraid anymore. She realized that New York, the enchanted island, with its tragedies and its comedies, its endings and its beginnings, will make you part of it whether you want it to or not.
Her throat relaxed, her tears stopped, and through her damp fingers she watched as life walked past her: in Uggs, in Jimmy Choos, barefoot. Then she looked down at her green sneakers and thought, Maybe I'm not that old? Maybe I will go to the Bowery Ballroom and see Iron & Wine? And the exhilaration of this idea caused her whole body to tremble. She closed her eyes and felt as if the street were shaking, glasses on tables rattling, and the wings of dirty pigeons flapping as they rose into the sky.
She went back upstairs without chocolate. He was peering at the laptop, amazed.
"Did you feel that?" he said. "There was an earthquake. Just a small one. Magnitude three-point-something, but it went on for twenty seconds."
Oh, she thought, it wasn't me discovering the Real Meaning of Life.
"I didn't notice."
He tried to smile, but he looked sad.
"You can say it," she said. "I don't notice anything, do I?"
"Not really, no."
She walked over and put her arms around him.
"Why didn't you leave me, Richard?"
"I was planning to, Lucy. But then we lost everything."
There was a long pause. It was certainly dramatic. Then Lucy grinned.
"Nearly everything, you mean."
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San Joaquin Valley College's Industrial Technology (IT) program is designed to provide fundamental, hands-on training on industrial systems and equipment.
Students will study and master the basic principles, applications, concepts and functions of hydraulic systems, bearing and seal types, and power transmission components.
Throughout SJVC's Industrial Technology program, students will learn:
- • Programmable logic controllers
- • Motor control devices and wiring
- • Fluid power systems
- • Valves, actuators and bearing application
Graduates can earn a Certificate of Completion in as few as 7 months, or an Associate of Science Degree in as little as 14 months. Certificate Completion students may continue their education at SJVC to earn an Associate of Science Degree in Technical Studies.
Employers are looking for individuals who can operate and maintain the equipment required for the operation of modern industrial facilities. Troubleshooting skills and the ability to communicate solutions are valuable assets to these organizations.
With SJVC's hands-on approach to training, graduates are qualified to go right to work in a variety of commercial and manufacturing settings as a Maintenance Technician, Production Supervisor, Hydraulic Technician, Machine Operator and Plant Electrician.
On the job, you can expect to:
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SJVC's Industrial Technology program is available at 7 of our California campuses:
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COLUMBUS, OH – The goals of Race to the Top have become the education goals of Ohio, and progress is already being made toward achieving those goals.
According to the Year-Two Progress Report released today, Ohio has increased its graduation rate by 1.7 percent at Race to the Top schools, closed the graduation gap between white and non-white students, increased the math scores of economically disadvantaged students, and increased the number of eighth graders who scored proficient or better in math.
"Our Race to the Top strategy is having a positive impact on graduation rates and math scores in Ohio," said Dr. Richard A. Ross, Ohio superintendent of public instruction. "The reforms we are making are establishing high standards of excellence and ensuring that our students will graduate with the skills to live successful lives. Still, we have much work to do. Our state Race to the Top staff and district teams understand this, and they are completely committed to carrying out our grant strategies. We will continue to fervently pursue these and other education reform goals."
The Year-Two Progress Report, produced by the Ohio Education Research Center summarizes Ohio's progress toward those goals, measures its performance and lists activities approved by the United States Department of Education.
This report includes success stories from Akron Buchtel Community Learning Center, Reading Middle School and Maysville High School.
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In 2010, Ohio was awarded a $400 million Race to the Top grant, which is part of a federal program designed to create a world-class education system in Ohio in which all students will graduate with a sense of purpose and be well prepared for college, work and life. Ohio's Race to the Top strategy is poised to transform its education system over a four-year timeframe.
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The No. 8 Virginia women's soccer team recorded its second consecutive shutout victory, downing Liberty 3-0 Wednesday night at Klöckner Stadium. The Cavaliers (2-1) scored early and late in the first half and once in the second half to hand the Flames (1-2) their second straight defeat.
Freshman Makenzy Doniak had two goals to lead Virginia, as she has scored in each of her first three career games. Senior All-American Caroline Miller added a goal and an assist on the evening.
"It was a good performance and result for us," said assistant coach Ron Raab. "It was nice to get a goal early as it changed the complexion of the game and allowed us to take control. We possessed the ball well and picked our times to go forward and create chances. It would have been nice to finish a few more of them, but we scored three nice goals tonight."
Virginia wasted little time taking the lead, scoring just 87 seconds into the game. Olivia Brannon threaded a through ball to Miller, who scored on the breakaway for her first goal of the season. The Cavaliers had a chance to double the lead in the 28th minute after Kate Norbo was taken down in the box, but Liberty goalkeeper Karen Blocker saved Julia Roberts' penalty kick to keep it a 1-0 game.
The Cavaliers struck again just before halftime, finding the back of the net with six seconds remaining. Morgan Stith recorded her first career assist as she sent a long ball into the box that was headed in by Doniak.
Doniak added another goal in the 50th minute to post her first career multi-goal game. Goalkeeper Danielle DeLisle sent a long ball forward that Miller flicked on to give Doniak a breakaway. She took the ball and dribbled around the charging goalkeeper and slotted home her fourth goal of the season.
Virginia outshot Liberty 19-1 in the contest and had a 6-1 corner kick edge. Churchill O'Connell made her first career start in goal and played the first half and combined with DeLisle, who played the second half, to record the shutout. Blocker made five saves in goal for the Flames.
The Cavaliers conclude their season-opening four-game homestand on Sunday as they host UNC Wilmington. Game time at Klöckner Stadium is set for 2 p.m.
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Hyundai A-League side Sydney FC have confirmed they are pursuing legendary striker Alessandro Del Piero, who is currently a free agent.
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Del Piero, who was part of the Italy squad that won the FIFA World Cup in 2006, spent 19 seasons at Juventus and scored 286 goals in 698 games for the Serie A outfit.
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Sydney could face a real fight on their hands for Del Piero's services from Swiss Super League outfit Sion, after sporting director Marco Degennaro revealed his team are also keen on the 37-year-old, having already sealed a deal for former Italy international Gennaro Gattuso earlier in the summer.
"After the arrival of the important Gattuso, the club want to try and do something special," Degennaro told Sky Sport Italia. "First, in Switzerland, and then the [UEFA] Champions League.
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Levante - Overlooking the ocean, this restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast and dinner.
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Every restaurant goes through changes at one point or another, and it seems it's James Coney Island's turn to do so. The famous Houston-based hot dog chain will no longer be known as James Coney Island. The restaurant has decided to change its name to JCI Grill in an attempt to re-brand itself. Wit ... More >>
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Brownsville set a trend last year when it became the first city in Texas to ban the use of plastic grocery bags in nearly all consumer settings. Brownsville mayor Pat Ahumada told the New York Times that the ban had eliminated 350,000 plastic bags per day, a decrease that "transformed our city from ... More >>
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Del Valle has come to Honduras (Translation)
22 September 2010
Cervecería Hondureña and The Coca-Cola Company announced their entry into the juice market by launching Del Valle juice, a product made with natural orange juice. Its enriched formula and delicious orange flavour will offer Honduran families nutritional benefits.
Del Valle is the highest-selling juice brand in Latin America. It's sold in and has been widely accepted in more than 45 countries. Del Valle is also part of the Minute Maid family, which is the world´s biggest juice brand and which is also present in Honduran homes.
Del Valle stands out from other juice brands because it offers drinks prepared with extracts from carefully selected natural fruits. Moreover, Del Valle has been enriched with vitamins B3, B6 and B12, which play an important role in the growth and nutrition of the whole family.
Look for Del Valle at your favourite local store in its three sizes, 250ml, 500ml and 2L, and enjoy the delicious orange flavour that offers the nutrition that you and your family need.
- The goal of the new Del Valle natural juice drink is to promote Honduran families' healthy nutrition.
- With their innovative and convenient packages, Del Valle is the perfect complement for your day.
- Del Valle is available in individual (250ml and 500ml) and family (2L) sizes.
- Del Valle's delicious orange flavour is enriched with vitamins and minerals to strengthen your body and delight your senses.
This SABMiller subsidiary news release has been translated from its local market language to English language for publication on www.sabmiller.com. We have attempted to provide an accurate translation of the original material but due to the difficulties of translation slight differences may exist.
Note, the news release was first published in its local market on 21/09/2010.


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If you need a place for your dog to hang out while you shop or if it's too hot to leave your pup in the car while you shop, consider Avonna's Critter Clippers on Highway 147 at Lake Almanor. Owner Avonna Burkman just finished her outdoor Doggie Day Care area. It's a large fenced-in grassy area with plenty of shade trees when it is time to nap. Hourly and day rates are available. Don't forget, Avonna's carries "pet bling" and the very popular custom bandanas.
solar COOK-OFF up next
Mark your calendar! Blackhawk Solar and KQNY 91.9 present the 22nd annual Solar Cook-Off on Friday and Saturday, July 13 and 14, at the Taylorsville Campground. Three bands start things off Friday at 7:30 p.m. On Saturday, enjoy music on two stages until after 10 p.m. The days are filled with solar cooking demonstrations and food, arts and crafts booths and plenty of great food and refreshments.
quincy merchants group busy
Cheryl Reinitz shared with us just how busy the Quincy Merchants group has been beautifying the area. They have purchased park benches and once again have arranged for the colorful petunias you see hanging on the light standards on both sides of Main Street. The group has also purchased the rose bushes near the veterans' memorial monument at the Dame Shirley Plaza. They are now in the process of replacing the area's flag's. Cheryl (along with her hardworking husband Bob) own Forest Stationers.
the cat is back at mr. b's
Spot, the beloved shop cat at Mr. B's Auto Techtronics in Quincy — whom, were told, disappointed lots of customers when she retired a couple of years ago — is back. Shop owner John Bremmel wanted us to pass this along should anyone want to stop and visit Spot at the automotive repair facility this summer.
more anniversaries to mention…
Gary and Mary Vogt are celebrating their 30th anniversary at American Valley Hardware in Quincy's Plumas Pines Shopping Center. The exceptionally well-stocked store carries paint, plumbing and electrical supplies, automotive parts and supplies, household appliances, lawn care, crafts and lots of gift items.
Gary and Ellen Foss of Lakeside Construction and Painting are celebrating their business's 33rd year. Gary is a general contractor and also offers specialized bat and bird removal services.
Treats Dog Company owners Monte and Joanie Keilty, who are also animal lovers themselves, tell us they are celebrating their fifth anniversary with their Chester store. That store was so warmly welcomed that they decided to open a second store in the Susanville area four years ago. If you have a four-legged friend, reptiles or birds they have everything you need for your pets. Stop by their Main Street locations in both Chester and Susanville.
Rick Williams marks a successful 11-year anniversary with Timberline Materials on Highway 36, just west of Chester. Rick started with a few bays of rock and soil and has expanded to selling both decorative and utility rock, soil, bark, sand and the like.
Thirteen years ago Leslie and Jeff Greenwood opened Sierra Valley Barns. Some of the products they manufacture at their Highway 70 facility just east of Beckwourth include horse barns, tack rooms and economical barn-style storage buildings in a variety of sizes.
- Ski hill to open winter 2015
- Sheriff still pushing plan for new facility with CHP
- Plans to rebuild burned downtown block on hold
- Family of man killed by deputy seeking damages
- Quincy cools off with some ice cream
- Many forest campgrounds to open for start of fishing season
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Left back in the changing rooms
Excusing the cliched joke (club football fans have got to amuse themselves somehow with the start of an international break), the coming weeks could see an Arsenal left back disappointed to be left out of the team. When Kieran Gibbs was back on the treatment table, Nacho Monreal was almost assured of his place in the starting XI. However, now Arsene Wenger has a difficult choice to make.
- Gunners deny Wilshere injury setback
When Monreal arrived in January, I was pleased just to see a new face come through the door of the club. My only concern was what it meant for Gibbs. He was just beginning to properly establish himself as the first choice left back at the club before he was struck down by injury again. There's now a danger for Gibbs that he'll fall into the trap of having his chances at Arsenal continually hampered by injuries.
The start of season looked to be the beginning of a good partnership on the left between Gibbs and Lukas Podolski. However, like a lot of areas on the team, it has faltered slightly as the season has progressed. Gibbs' future inclusion could be dependent on who is available to play in front, because there was still enough potential in his partnership with Podolski for it to be concerned a good option. On the other hand, if Santi Cazorla is on the left, he's likely to be better with Monreal behind him because of having played with the Spaniard before.
Having arrived with a sizeable price tag for a left back that had flown under the radar of a lot of clubs, and having been an important part of Malaga's impressive run into the Champions League, Monreal will be disappointed if he has to make do with a regular sport on the bench. Defensively, with the exception of the failed offside trap at Tottenham, he has looked tidy so far. Given how Gibbs has improved that area of his game, there isn't much to choose between the two if they were to be picked purely on their defensive ability. It could even come down to whoever looked like they were concentrating most at Wenger's movie night!
I believe that it's their attacking games that could ultimately decide who is the first choice for the left back slot. With a good assist against Aston Villa and a goal against Swansea, Monreal has shown that he can contribute higher up the pitch. Gibbs has three assists this season and also scored a memorable goal into the same net at the Liberty Stadium in the FA Cup against the Swans, so once again, the battle between them looks tight.
The challenge for Wenger is to manage to keep both happy in the squad as they are both very good left backs. Gibbs signed a long-term contract earlier this season, and Monreal won't be planning on going anywhere soon having barely touched down in London. The competition for places between two good players is the sort of situation Arsenal should have for most positions across the pitch, so it should be viewed as a good thing to have Gibbs and Monreal battling it out for the starting spot.
Personally, I can't choose between them. With both players getting rests over the international period, Wenger will be able to study the two of them and make a decision before the visit of Reading at the end of March. If he can manage both players well, it should be used as an example of being able to have two excellent players competing for the same place in the team. This could then make Wenger lose some inhibitions about strengthening other areas at the squad despite the potential to slow the development of some youngster players.


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Sci. Signal., 21 September 2010
Synthetic Lethal Screen of an EGFR-Centered Network to Improve Targeted Therapies
Igor Astsaturov1*, Vladimir Ratushny1,2*, Anna Sukhanova1, Margret B. Einarson1, Tetyana Bagnyukova1, Yan Zhou1, Karthik Devarajan1, Joshua S. Silverman1, Nadezhda Tikhmyanova1,2, Natalya Skobeleva1, Anna Pecherskaya1, Rochelle E. Nasto1,3, Catherine Sharma1, Sandra A. Jablonski4, Ilya G. Serebriiskii1, Louis M. Weiner4, and Erica A. Golemis1
1 Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 19111, USA.
Abstract: Intrinsic and acquired cellular resistance factors limit the efficacy of most targeted cancer therapeutics. Synthetic lethal screens in lower eukaryotes suggest that networks of genes closely linked to therapeutic targets would be enriched for determinants of drug resistance. We developed a protein network centered on the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), which is a validated cancer therapeutic target, and used small interfering RNA screening to comparatively probe this network for proteins that regulate the effectiveness of both EGFR-targeted agents and nonspecific cytotoxic agents. We identified subnetworks of proteins influencing resistance, with putative resistance determinants enriched among proteins that interacted with proteins at the core of the network. We found that clinically relevant drugs targeting proteins connected in the EGFR network, such as protein kinase C or Aurora kinase A, or the transcriptional regulator signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3), synergized with EGFR antagonists to reduce cell viability and tumor size, suggesting the potential for a direct path to clinical exploitation. Such a focused approach can potentially improve the coherent design of combination cancer therapies.
To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: weinerl{at}georgetown.edu (L.M.W.); ea_golemis{at}fccc.edu (E.A.G.); ig_serebriiskii{at}fccc.edu (I.G.S.)
Citation: I. Astsaturov, V. Ratushny, A. Sukhanova, M. B. Einarson, T. Bagnyukova, Y. Zhou, K. Devarajan, J. S. Silverman, N. Tikhmyanova, N. Skobeleva, A. Pecherskaya, R. E. Nasto, C. Sharma, S. A. Jablonski, I. G. Serebriiskii, L. M. Weiner, E. A. Golemis, Synthetic Lethal Screen of an EGFR-Centered Network to Improve Targeted Therapies. Sci. Signal. 3, ra67 (2010).
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Excite assists student organizations and households in the planning, management, and evaluation of programs and organizational activities directed toward meeting the wide variety of student needs and interests.
Excite welcomes all students who wish to volunteer or participate in its sponsored events. Come to our meetings at 11:00 a.m. every Wednesday in the St. Margaret Room in the J.C. Williams Center. Further information about Excite is available at the Excite Office on the ground floor of the J.C. Williams Center.
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Jennifer Squeglia, CMP, is principal, RLC Events, in Marlborough, Mass.
1. If you could be anywhere in the world, where would you be?
Right here with my husband, friends, family, and colleagues. I really believe it's who you're with and not where you are that makes life special.
2. What's playing on your iPod?
Everything from Ella Fitzgerald to Green Day and the Black Eyed Peas. I'm also a big '80s music fan—loved listening to it when I was a toddler (ha ha).
3. What is your favorite cause or charity?
There are so many worthy causes I support, but one of my favorites is Daffodil Days for the American Cancer Society.
4. What's your top travel tip?
Always make sure you get a good seat on the plane: Stay on top of it from the moment you book your flight. I think that makes a huge difference. A middle seat or a seat way in the back is such a drag.
5. What's the best book you've read recently?
I just read "My Life in France," by Julia Child, while I was on vacation and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Julia Child's true love of life, her determined spirit, and making the most of everything around her is inspiring and refreshing.
6. What do you do to stay healthy?
Laugh a lot. Obviously exercise and healthy eating are really important, but I think humor is key to your mental well-being.
7. What is your favorite quote or saying?
I have many favorites, but I love this one from Maya Angelou: "Nothing will work unless you do."
8. Who inspires you?
My parents. Even though both are in heaven, they are in my heart every day, instilling the great foundation they created from day one. They both taught me to be kind, respectful, work hard, and to always do the right thing.


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Certification of Applicants and Interview Pools (continued...)
Upon certification of the interview pool and prior to conducting interviews, the search committee should determine:
- The type of screenings (e.g. telephone or Skype) or interviews that will be conducted Generally, telephone or video conferencing screenings may be conducted prior to on campus interviews unless all candidates are local. The type of interview must be conducted in the same manner for all candidates being advanced through the process. For example, if telephone screenings will be used, all candidates being advanced must be given a telephone screen. A standard list of questions should be created to ensure each interviewee is treated equally.
- Specific core-job related questions to be asked of all interviewees.
- Who will lead the discussion/questioning.
- Whether the candidate will be asked to give a presentation in his/her area of expertise. It is strongly recommended that faculty be required to give a presentation or other provide evidence of teaching ability.
- Whether discussion of each candidate will follow the conclusion of the interview or be held until the last interview is completed.
- Who will host the candidate for on campus interviews.
- Who, in addition to the committee members and Hiring Official, will interview the candidate and whether there is specific information the committee seeks from specific audiences (i.e., student reactions to teaching style at a symposium, assessment of an applicant's research records from a Dean).
For any degree(s) required for a position, the Search Committee Chair may request candidates, invited to interview on campus, to bring copies of unofficial transcripts with them and have official transcripts submitted to Academic Affairs for faculty positions and Human Resources for all other positions.
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